Encephalocele: What It Is, Causes, Treatment & Types
网页Encephalocele (pronounced “en-SEF-al-oh-SEEL”) is a birth defect that causes brain tissue to grow through an opening of your baby’s skull. This condition is a neural tube defect. The neural tube is the early form of the brain and spinal cord when the fetus is developing in the uterus. If there’s a problem with how the top of the neural ...
Encephalocele - Wikipedia
网页Encephalocele is a neural tube defect characterized by sac-like protrusions of the brain and the membranes that cover it through openings in the skull. These defects are caused by failure of the neural tube to close completely during fetal development. Encephaloceles cause a groove down the middle of the skull, or between the forehead and nose ...
Encephalocele - Symptoms, Causes, Treatment | NORD
网页2023年9月8日 · The symptoms of the encephalocele are usually not directly a result of the lesion itself, but the changes that accompany the lesion in the underlying brain because of the loss of brain tissue or effects on the underlying brain structure and development. Patients with encephaloceles can develop seizures, microcephaly (smaller than normal …
Encephalocele - Nationwide Children's Hospital
网页Encephalocele (pronounced en-sef-a-lo-seal) is a rare condition that happens before birth (congenital). Normally, the brain and spinal cord form during the third and fourth weeks of pregnancy. They are formed out of the neural tube. Most encephaloceles happen when the neural tube does not fully close.
Encephalocele | Birth Defects | CDC
网页2024年5月16日 · Encephalocele is a rare type of neural tube defect (NTD) that affects the brain. The neural tube forms the early brain and spine. When the neural tube does not close completely during early pregnancy, encephalocele can happen. With encephalocele, a baby is born with a sac-like protrusion of brain tissue coming out of an opening in the skull.
Encephalocele - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
网页Encephalocele is a neural tube defect that occurs when the neural tube (the narrow channel that connects the brain and the spinal cord) does not close completely during pregnancy. Encephaloceles are characterized by the herniation of brain through the skull that is still connected to intracranial tissues.
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